Bug 242529

I wonder if you're trying to install an i386 rpm on an x64_64 system, or vice-versa?

If you select all available updates instead of just Pidgin does this work?

I only have the 64-bit version of GAIM installed, and the update should be for
that, so I don't think it would pick the 32-bit version when I am using the tray
icon interface for yum.

In regards to selecting all available updates that is what I did first, and it
still didn't work.  In fact, to figure out what was causing it, I deselected one
update at a time to figure out that it was Pigdin that was causing the problem.
 All the other updates applied fine, and the only update left in the interface
is Pigdin.

Can you please list which specific file conflict you got?

Here is the specific conflict:

[('file /usr/share/man/man1/gst-launch-0.10.1.gz from install of
gstreamer-0.10.11-1.fc6 conflicts with file from package
gstreamer-0.10.11-1.fc6', (7, '/usr/share/man/man1/gst-launch-0.10.1.gz', 0L))]

Of course, as I was trying to point out, that this is merely the first conflict
of many, since it is trying to install packages, via added dependencies, that
are already installed.

Of the dependencies added (listed in the body of the report) only meanwhile and
libpurple are not already installed and at the correct version.

So, I tried something, and what do you know it worked.  Instead of clicking on
the yum updatesd tray icon and selecting "View updates", I started up the
Package Manager application, searched for pidgin, and selected it to install. 
It added only the libpurple and meanwhile dependencies, and it installed
perfectly.  After that, when I "View updates" through the tray icon (PUP), I get
no updates available.  Don't know why PUP is adding all the extra dependencies,
so this looks  like a PUP issue and not a package issue.

This is due to multilib.  It's trying to bring in the gstreamer.i386 package
when you already have gstreamer.x86_64, and there seems to be a conflict in the
package that is a separate bug/problem.  We're still investigating on a test
install.

> Of course, as I was trying to point out, that this is merely the first conflict
> of many, since it is trying to install packages, via added dependencies, that
> are already installed.

Please don't confuse the issue.  gstreamer is the only confirmed conflict so far.

Reproduce Procedure:
1) Install only gaim.x86_64 and gstreamer.x86_64.
2) yum update and say yes.  It will pull in gstreamer.i386.

Update fails with:
Transaction Check Error:   file /usr/share/man/man1/gst-launch-0.10.1.gz from in
stall of gstreamer-0.10.11-1.fc6 conflicts with file from package gstreamer-0.10
.11-1.fc6   

I had the same problem: gstreamer.i386 gets pulled in to satisfy dependencies
even though the machine is x86_64, then yum -y update fails because of a man
page conflict between i386 and x86_64 versions of gstreamer.

Until gstreamer RPMs are rebuilt to fix this non-problem, here is a workaround
(assuming that gstreamer-0.10.11-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm is already installed):

rpm -ivh --force gstreamer-0.10.11-1.fc6.i386.rpm
yum -y update

This worked on my system.

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